A 37-year-old River Forest man was arrested for assaulting and battering River Forest police officers at 3:46 p.m. on April 2, in the 7300 block of Holley Court. Police were called out for a domestic disturbance at a residence.

Thirty-five feet of copper wire was stolen from the construction site of the housing development being constructed at the corner of Forest Avenue and Lake Street in downtown Oak Park. The theft occurred between the hours of 6 p.m. on March 26 and 8 a.m. on March 27. The wire, worth an estimated $100, was located at the northwest corner of the construction site.

A full-grown mastiff, weighing well over 100 pounds, named Romulus, along with several other smaller pets, was rescued by firefighters responding Sunday evening to a house fire at 214 Pleasant St., according to the Oak Park Fire Department.

Lincoln Elementary School administrators were asked by the Oak Park Police Department to keep children inside last Friday, March 20, for about 20 minutes, due to their pursuit of nearby burglary suspects.

Principal Catherine Hamilton sent an email to parents that day, informing them that at about 1 p.m., police informed the school that they were in pursuit of the suspects.

"The children and teachers who were on the playground were immediately brought back into the building," Hamilton said in the email. "At that time we suspended all outdoor recess activities."

Nearly eight out of 10 Oak Park residents, surveyed by the University of Illinois Chicago, say they are "satisfied with the experience" with Oak Park police, according to a news release from the village.

The satisfaction rate was largely positive, "regardless of whether the officers were called for an incident or initiated the encounter in a traffic stop," according to the village.

Riverside police arrested an Oak Park man on Saturday afternoon at Brookfield Zoo, after an argument with his girlfriend escalated into a physical fight with the man allegedly punching the woman in the face as she held an 11-month-old child.